Mid-September 2025 Newsletter

Hello, and a meteoric special Mid-September to you!
Welcome, or welcome back, to my newsletter. Today's issue is about connecting and avoiding. Enjoy!

Years ago when I started learning that vision improvement was possible, first I explored the simple techniques for relaxation of the visual system. However, going through the motions mechanically of so-called "vision exercises" didn't do much except frustrate me. It turned out that I didn't make consistent progress until I investigated my feelings about seeing. Looking in the distance was scary for me, as was looking at and connecting with other people, and I didn't really want to do either of these.

Our human senses are the way we interpret our environment, then decide on the correct course of action we want to take to respond. By not wanting to connect to my environment visually, I was seriously limiting myself and my choices. Like many people with a strong eyeglasses prescription, my habit was to glance at my surroundings, take a quick visual snapshot, then stop looking around, assuming I had captured the complete unchanging picture. It's not surprising I missed a lot.

Getting serious about vision improvement required changing my automatic habits of looking, and of thinking about what I would see. I had to become more conscious of my expectation of being able to see well, or of not being able to see something, and allow myself to be curious about what was there. I realized that way too often I assumed I wouldn't be capable of seeing something, usually before I had even looked! Clearly this was setting myself up for failure, when I hadn't given my visual system the chance to start interpreting the view yet.

It became apparent that first, I needed to let my eyes reach out more regularly to my environment. If I never practiced looking farther away than a few feet in front of me, how would I ever get better at seeing well in the distance? Next, I had to look for a longer period of time, scanning softly over whatever was there, rather than quickly grabbing an image and retreating to the comfortable safety of what was close. I could feel myself nervous about stretching into The Unknown as I let my gaze reach out farther. Since I got glasses at age 5, which got stronger every year as I grew, I was starting to loosen a well-established habit.

One of my early vision teachers, who was originally also nearsighted and contracted, often talked about reaching out. He advised us to let our visual energy travel all the way out to that distant object, say a tree across a field. We were to do this even when the tree was blurry at first, and notice what we could see, like perhaps the trunk reaching up to split into 2 sections. Keeping our attention focused on what we could not see clearly, like the tiny details of the twigs and leaves, was self-defeating, made us feel badly, and did not invite our vision to improve.

The way we learn a new skill, then reinforce that learning so it sticks, is to practice. It's a truism in vision improvement that the more you look at details (without straining), the more and finer details you will start to notice. Similarly, the more you reach out and connect with what you see, the more connection, and the more frequent clear vision, you'll experience. Let yourself enjoy reaching out, then receiving and welcoming whatever is ready to come your way. I like to imagine that who or what I'm seeing wants to see me, too.

To read about those childhood thick glasses feeling like my "game face" which hid the real me from others, click here.

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